Antiochus I Soter Tetradrachm

Severus Alexander · Jul 23, 2017

4to2centBC said: ↑

I like the Antiochos VII portrait. A real nice example of that type.
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Mikey Zee · Jul 24, 2017

Truly a wonderful first thread with so many super posts!!!

I'll pile on with my most recent purchase of Antiochos VIII:

SELEUCID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.39 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. 1st reign at Antioch, circa 121/0-113 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Ouranios, draped, standing left, holding star and scepter; to outer left, IE above A; AI in exergue. SC 2298.1d; HGC 9, 1197 e. Good VF, minor double strike on reverse.

Meander · Jul 24, 2017

A great OP coin and so are the others presented in this thread. I find that a collection of Seleucid rulers coins is probably the most feasible to "complete" on a relatively low budget. And the portraits are usually of a very high quality. For the reverses I don't care so much if they are at least identifiable. Here are some of my best:
Antiochos I
Antiochos VIII

Curtisimo · Jul 24, 2017

TheRed said: ↑

After reading a post by @dougsmit in another thread, I feel compelled to create my first thread.

While primarily a medieval English collector, I do love the coins of Seleukos I Nikator. I decided to expand to the other Seleukid rulers and picked up the following coin at the most recent HJB Bid/Buy sale.

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Antiochus I Soter AR Tetradrachm.
281-261 BC Seleucia on the Tigris
Obv: Diademed head of Antiochus I r. Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and resting w/ hand on grounded bow; monograms in outer l. and r. fields.

Antiochus I Soter was the eldest son of Seleukos I Nikator, the greatest of the Diadochi, and Apama of Sogdia, and Iranian noblewoman. He was born in 324/3 BC. At the age of 29/30 he married his stepmother with the blessing of his father. They would go on to have five children. Upon his father's murder in 281 BC, Antiochus inherited an empire that stretched from Macedon to India, and encompassed almost all of Alexander's old empire save Egypt and parts of Greece.

The task of holding together the empire of his father would prove too great for Antiochus. A revolt in Syria drew him East, and Macedon and Thrace were lost to his father's murderer, Ptolemy Keraunos. Philetaerus established defacto independence in Pergamon with Antiochus unable to halt the gradual loss, despite several attempts. The First Syrian War, fought over control out Coele-Syria with the Ptolemaic Kingdom, was largely a defeat for Antiochus. He also failed in attempts to conquer Cappadocia and Bithynia.

The one bright spot in his military career was a crushing victory over Gauls that had entered Anatolia at the behest of a king of Bithynia who was in the midst of a civil war with his brother. The roughly 20,000 Gauls were broken by the war elephants of Antiochus, and thereafter settled in the highlands of Anatolia. Over time the area became known as Galatia.

Antiochus I Soter died in 261 BC and was succeeded but his son Antiochus II Theos, under who's rule the Seleukid Empire would continue tip fragment and decline.

Please feel free to post your Seleukid coins.
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Love the coin and the write up! Good job Red!

Andres2 · Jul 25, 2017

great thread, here are some more Seleukids

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